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    Challenges→The institutional design of radical democracy cannot be specified in advance and must emerge through the process of reconstruction itself.

    A design process with no prior specification lacks criteria to distinguish progressive reconstruction from regressive institutional collapse.

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    • 1.Without predefined success metrics, any institutional change appears neutral rather than directionally better or worse.
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    • 2.Emergent design risks drifting toward chaos; only prior specifications establish anchors to measure deviation.
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    • 3.Historical institutional collapses often followed loss of founding principles; specification preserves intentionality.
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    • 1.Adaptive systems use real-time feedback and stakeholder outcomes as criteria, not requiring advance specification.
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    • 2.Prior specifications often encode obsolete assumptions; unspecified processes enable learning that specifications block.
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    • 3.The claim conflates absence of written specification with absence of criteria; implicit norms and evolving consensus suffice.
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